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Recent Examples of spiredIts terra-cotta walls and spired boxwoods signal the style instantly, and inside are huge arched wooden doors and bespoke kitchen tiling.—Kristi Kellogg, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2024 Across the Rio Grande in Matamoros, church bells would ring and the spired cathedrals would remind the Irish soldiers of the old world.—Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024 Although the occupying German forces had begun retreating, snipers in and around the city’s historic twin-spired 13th-century Gothic cathedral were still firing at the arriving American and French army troops and the ragtag local resistance fighters.—Phil Davison, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2023 It and the campsite are stunningly situated on Dickson Lake, which is bounded by a spired glacier at the far end of the water that lights up pink with the sunrise.—Cassidy Randall, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023 The single-spired, single-story, 25,000-square-foot edifice will be New Mexico’s second temple.—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022 Two other pioneer-era Utah temples — the iconic six-spired Salt Lake Temple, now shrouded in scaffolding, and the treasured Manti Temple — are undergoing major renovations as well.—Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Mar. 2022 The single-spired, single-story, 19,000-square-foot temple will be the fifth in Argentina, home to more than 470,000 members.—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Feb. 2022 The double-spired, three-story, 81,000-square-foot structure is one of 28 existing or planned temples in Utah (seven of them in Utah County).—David Noyce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Feb. 2022
That's right — after a full season of Hot Topics, spicy cohost clashes, high-profile political guests, and even courting pointed responses from the White House, The View talk show stars have gone off the air for the year.
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EW.com,
EW.com,
28 July 2025
Drone cameras will remain pointed at the horizon during flight to protect privacy.
Ivor checked it, and then spotted the line of barbed wire threaded through the scrub.
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Anne Enright,
New Yorker,
27 July 2025
That speculative element is teased right there in the title: One of God’s best and brightest has been knocked from heaven by war’s tumult and is caught in a thatch of barbed wire.
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